[c-nsp] GLC-LH-SM vs SFP-GE-L

[Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com]

> I had a customer with HP VirtualConnect Flex-10 and Cisco Nexus 5000,
> who couldn't use a Cisco cable (DAC) because the VC wouldn't accept it
> and couldn't use a HP cable because the N5K wouldn't accept it. So ...
> 'service unsupported' to the rescue.

Was the Cisco-rejected HP cable listed on the Nexus 5000 twinax cable certification support matrix?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps10110/data_sheet_c78-568589.html

I'd expected that the necessarily multi-vendor nature of twinax cables would be really ugly, but haven't run into this sort of problem yet.